[Do you have an idea for a future Mind Meld? Let us know!] Over the last ten years we've watched as book review blogs started as something rare, became a novelty, and exploded online. Hobbies became passions and made it to national and international award ballots. With that in mind, I asked our panelists the following question: Q: Book Continue Reading →

Crowd funding is the in thing for obtaining money to fund a variety of projects, with Kickstarter being the most prominent of these sites. With new projects going live daily, it's a chore to keep up with, let alone find, interesting genre projects. The Crowd Funding Roundup will be our effort to bring projects we think are interesting to your Continue Reading →

In this weeks SciFi Weekly, Ben Affleck admits that some changes were made to his upcoming movie, Paycheck, based on Philip K. Dick's short story of the same name. "We've taken some liberities with it, obviously...." Right. With the biggest liberty being casting Affleck as an action hero. The second liberty would be chaning the story into an action shoot-'em Continue Reading →

REVIEW SUMMARY: A near-identical translation of the source material, with the same problems, too. MY RATING: BRIEF SYNOPSIS: Paul tries to help his younger, troubled brother Don, who is being followed by an alien, clean up his act. MY REVIEW: PROS: A near-exact translation of the Jonathan Lethem story on which it is based. CONS: Suffers from the same Continue Reading →